1343-05-17, Westminster

To William Scot and his fellows, justices appointed to hold pleas before king. Whereas, the king has learned Thomas Blanket, John de John le Peautrer and Thomas de Gloucestr[ia] were indicted Everard le Fraunceys and his fellows, appointed to enquire concerning who took victuals and armour to the king's enemies of Scotland, for laded victuals in ships in the port of Bristol in the 18th, 14th and years of the reign and taken them to John de Insulis by their merchants the isles in Scotland, for his maintenance, and Thomas was lord of the as approved by the indictments made before Everard and his fellows, assert that they are not guilty, and are demised by a mainprise until king's return to England ; the king notifies the justices that he considers de Insulis as his friend and orders them to view the indictments, and he finds that Thomas and the others were not indicted for any other cause to proceed to their release and to the final issue of that affair in accordwith the law and custom of the realm. By p.s.